I was initially contacted by an MS recruiter who had found articles on my blog related to skills they were currently hiring for.

I had an initial phone screen with the recruiter, followed by a phone interview with a test manager a few days later.

The phone screen consisted of basic coding tests done via live meeting.

A few weeks later, I visited the Redmond campus for a series of in-person interviews with several other test engineers.

The interview series consisted of 4-5 in-person interviews, each with a single test engineer. Each interview involved either coding on a whiteboard or testing applications.

The interviews progressed in difficulty as the day went on.

Implement the simplest method, given the signature int Solve(string str);, that returns the results of the following arguments:

• "3+5" (8)
• "10+2-8" (4)
• "5+10*3" (35)
• "3+5--6" (14)